I don’t need 24oz of pasta sauce. Or 48. Or by the gallon. I need 8 ounces. And no I don’t want to have this jar of pasta sauce hanging around my fridge till it goes bad and not dominant to have pasta 3 time in a row.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Okay. Well now I need two more containers, because I have to portion it out. And now I need space in my freezer for the containers. And now I need to remember that I’ve got frozen pasta sauce in my freezer when thinking I could use some pasta sauce. And also its frozen, so I cant just use it as is. And also it gets the plastic storage containers I use stained with tomato sauce. And also, I can’t use glass, because this is going in the freezer, and it would crack the glass. And also I better know exactly how much sauce I’ll need at some future date and proportion appropriately otherwise I’ll have to thaw all the sauce, take what I need, and then refreeze, which violates basic food safety principals.

      anyways. it seems like I really only need pasta sauce about every 30 days.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    An 8 ounce can of tomato sauce is dirt cheap, buy that, add sugar, oregano, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, onion powder and garlic powder.

    • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      And if you’re lazy you can probably get some pre mixed seasoning with all of those.

  • haywire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    In the UK it’s quite common for sauces to be available in 1 or 2 person pots/pouches, not sure where you are but see if there is an Aldi near you. They do some stir in sauce pots here at least.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    With the cost and weight of 8oz glass jars, they’d probably have to sell them at an extremely high price, or take a loss on each one.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Crazy people. Aldi/Lidl here (in Germany) have cans of chopped tomatoes and the standard size is 425ml. Which is pretty much good to make pasta sauce for 2 people?!

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    4 months ago

    I always think of it as Americans "family first* bullshit we do. Everything is always made and designed for a nuclear family and it’s just fucking dumb and I hate it. It’s always cheaper to buy bigger too and I’m just like. I want one thing and they give me 30.

    So yeah I get that and I hate it just as much. It’s so incredibly wasteful.